To those who are privy to how the schedule is made, why are we playing @ Temple again this year. To my knowledge we flip-flopped home and home with every other conference team we played last year. Something to do with the addition of new members?

I believe it had something to do with adding Navy. But going to a cold place like Philly for a winter game in back to back years is certainly a test for a bunch of young men from the South.

And it's obviously an advantage for Temple. But hopefully, the wrinkles will be ironed out of the schedule before we move into the Big 12.

(11-05-2015 08:07 AM)cscottl1981 Wrote:  To those who are privy to how the schedule is made, why are we playing @ Temple again this year. To my knowledge we flip-flopped home and home with every other conference team we played last year. Something to do with the addition of new members?

I don't know for sure, but this was the reason mentioned last time this question was asked on the board. Schedule due to Navy being added to the western division.

See it like this though; if we beat Navy and Houston (on the road), beating Temple on the road means more for our strength of schedule. Then we'd play Temple again at home in the Conference title game if they win every other game.

(11-05-2015 08:12 AM)holyterror Wrote:  I believe it had something to do with adding Navy. But going to a cold place like Philly for a winter game in back to back years is certainly a test for a bunch of young men from the South.

And it's obviously an advantage for Temple. But hopefully, the wrinkles will be ironed out of the schedule before we move into the Big 12.

It's BS is what it is.

(11-05-2015 08:12 AM)holyterror Wrote:  I believe it had something to do with adding Navy. But going to a cold place like Philly for a winter game in back to back years is certainly a test for a bunch of young men from the South.

And it's obviously an advantage for Temple. But hopefully, the wrinkles will be ironed out of the schedule before we move into the Big 12.

It relates directly to adding Navy and going to a divisional setup with a championship game. How that rationale got Memphis playing again this year, I don't understand but it is what it is........just win.

What I do know is that it was VERY COLD sitting in a 80K stadium with maybe 15-20K in the seats on a cold Friday night & we decided we would not go back, but we will!

(11-05-2015 09:38 AM)Atlanta Wrote:  

(11-05-2015 08:12 AM)holyterror Wrote:  I believe it had something to do with adding Navy. But going to a cold place like Philly for a winter game in back to back years is certainly a test for a bunch of young men from the South.

And it's obviously an advantage for Temple. But hopefully, the wrinkles will be ironed out of the schedule before we move into the Big 12.

It relates directly to adding Navy and going to a divisional setup with a championship game. How that rationale got Memphis playing again this year, I don't understand but it is what it is........just win.

What I do know is that it was VERY COLD sitting in a 80K stadium with maybe 15-20K in the seats on a cold Friday night & we decided we would not go back, but we will!

Any time you restructure your conference, this stuff can happen. You can't strictly use the home-home format when adding teams and games. Other teams got the same treatment.

There's also the fact that we got Temple, Cincy, & USF - the top 3 East division teams - as our cross-over opponents. While Houston got Cincy, UCF, & UConn - 2 of the worst East teams.

Stuff happens. Just win.

(10-20-2015 03:49 PM)AlonsoWDC Wrote:  

(10-20-2015 11:33 AM)Tigerx3 Wrote:  

(10-19-2015 11:30 AM)ntrent23 Wrote:  Can anyone tell me why we play Temple back to back at their place?

Scheduling fluke that I think had to do with Navy. We wanted Navy as a marquee home game which meant we had to surrender a conference home game. It was set up two years ago.

If we are still in the same league over the next two years they are supposed to come here two years in a row.

That may not be true but it's what I heard.

We didn't want that - we were going to get it anyway because Navy's inclusion to the American as a football-only member was dependent upon them getting games in the Sun Belt region of the country, something they have been doing with Sun Belt and C-USA and other programs for years now. That's their recruiting MO.

They were never going to be put in the Eastern Division because half of those programs (Cincinnati, Temple, UConn) don't fit that MO, even if the other three do. But all of the Western programs do. And we were never going to be in the Eastern division, so Memphis didn't have a say in getting to play Navy at home. We were always going to play them home-and-away.

The scheduling shifts to the division format means that some schools had to play another twice away in a row. It happens. We also get to avoid East Carolina until 2017.

UConn played at Tulane in 2014 and will play in New Orleans again this season.

Stuff happens; get over it.

******* **** heads I hate them for scheduling us like they did.

Ok..so I'm till not over it

Would you all rather have UCF on the schedule and NO chance to make the playoffs undefeated??

This gives us a great opportunity.

Dayum. I hope you haven't upset the 'We can't look past the Navy game' crowd. They are convinced the Tigers will lose focus on that game if we discuss anything past our opponent this Saturday. You know. One game at a time.

(11-06-2015 02:20 AM)alcalde Wrote:  Would you all rather have UCF on the schedule and NO chance to make the playoffs undefeated??

This gives us a great opportunity.

Has UCF won a game yet this year?????

(11-06-2015 02:20 AM)alcalde Wrote:  Would you all rather have UCF on the schedule and NO chance to make the playoffs undefeated??

This gives us a great opportunity.

You think UCF on the schedule in place of either Cincy or Temple or Navy would keep us out? And our current schedule is enough to get us in? So you think one of those teams is going to make the difference with the committee?...ehhh, probably not.

IF we go undefeated, we still get the east champ - probably Temple. I doubt that the committee is going to look at Cincy or Navy and say, "yeah they won that game at home so they are in".

I'm one that says just keep winning, so I'm fine with Temple 3 times in 2 years. But to say that game is going to be the difference is not solid ground.

(11-06-2015 09:27 AM)Tiger87 Wrote:  

(11-06-2015 02:20 AM)alcalde Wrote:  Would you all rather have UCF on the schedule and NO chance to make the playoffs undefeated??

This gives us a great opportunity.

You think UCF on the schedule in place of either Cincy or Temple or Navy would keep us out? And our current schedule is enough to get us in? So you think one of those teams is going to make the difference with the committee?...ehhh, probably not.

IF we go undefeated, we still get the east champ - probably Temple. I doubt that the committee is going to look at Cincy or Navy and say, "yeah they won that game at home so they are in".

I'm one that says just keep winning, so I'm fine with Temple 3 times in 2 years. But to say that game is going to be the difference is not solid ground.

Replacing Temple with UCF on our schedule would be TERRIBLE for our strength of schedule, and yes, it would give the committee one more excuse to keep us out of the playoffs. We already have TWO winless teams on our schedule. If we went 12 and 0, having one less RANKED team, and adding a no win team would be all the difference in the world.

Im happy we get to prove we are the best G5 team with this late schedule

I agree. If we want to make a case for the playoffs, we need two quality wins against Temple.

(11-06-2015 09:27 AM)Tiger87 Wrote:  

(11-06-2015 02:20 AM)alcalde Wrote:  Would you all rather have UCF on the schedule and NO chance to make the playoffs undefeated??

This gives us a great opportunity.

You think UCF on the schedule in place of either Cincy or Temple or Navy would keep us out? And our current schedule is enough to get us in? So you think one of those teams is going to make the difference with the committee?...ehhh, probably not.

IF we go undefeated, we still get the east champ - probably Temple. I doubt that the committee is going to look at Cincy or Navy and say, "yeah they won that game at home so they are in".

I'm one that says just keep winning, so I'm fine with Temple 3 times in 2 years. But to say that game is going to be the difference is not solid ground.

Further, if you go to the playoff ranking page on ESPN, the SOS numbers it gives shows only Baylor as having a worse SOS than us.

Now, if you look at our schedule and analyze it, we have great wins over Bowling Green, Cincy, and Ole Miss in addition to some other solid wins.

But those just looking at a computer number that is spit out from the overall schedule, Kansas is a gross anchor…and if they want to count the Missouri State game even though its not D1, its even worse. UCF over Temple would lower that number another 20 or so